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February 3, 2023

Wilson Weekly

Wilson Center Launches Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition

The Wilson Center launched a cross-cutting initiative aimed at shaping conversations and proposing meaningful policy reforms to strengthen American leadership in the era of great power competition. Named the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, the initiative was made possible by a generous multi-year commitment from the Wahba Foundation.

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Event | Video

Bucha After Russian Occupation: Bucha’s Mayor Speaks About the Destruction and Hope

The death and destruction leveled against Bucha by Russian troops rocked the world last spring, with accounts of mass graves and war crimes. The Wilson Center and Ukraine Friends host Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk and his team, who speak to the city’s recovery and the ongoing efforts to hold Russia accountable.

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Publication

Africa: Year in Review 2022

In this hot off the press publication, the Africa Program delivers poignant analyses on many of the continent’s most significant developments in political, economic, and social affairs. Now in its 7th year, don’t miss Africa: Year in Review 2022.

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Winter 2023

Strategic Competition: Strengthening America’s Advantage in a Competitive World

In an era of intense competition, coordinated efforts to strengthen technological, economic, supply chain, energy, and infrastructure underpinnings are needed to support a stable, rules-based world order. The winter issue of the Wilson Quarterly offers fresh perspectives on this vital issue.

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Responding to the Ukrainian Refugee Plight: The EU and US Perspectives

Leading US and EU officials offer insights and solutions to the human migration challenge resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war. One of the largest forced displacements since WWII, more than 7.8 million Ukrainian refugees that have fled to the neighboring countries and over 6.5 million people who are internally displaced.

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Blog | Weekly Asado

Journalism in Latin America is Under Attack by Spyware

There is a growing threat of spyware to journalism in Latin America, where reporters already face other forms of harassment and intimidation from both governments and organized crime syndicates. Find out more from journalist and editor Boris Muñoz in this Latin American Program blog.

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Article

What Went Wrong? For Women, Everything

Forty-four years ago, the public welcomed Ayatollah Khomeini’s returned to Iran after 14 years in exile. Many hoped for a new era of freedom, but as Haleh Esfandiari writers, the revolution consolidated the power of the clergy, the radicals, and the violent, which has had outsized impact on women.

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Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Iraq Invasion

“I wanted to tell a compelling story. I wanted to demonstrate that the invasion of Iraq was not inevitable. And I also wanted to analyze with a great deal of clarity about why the invasion, liberation, and occupation went awry,” says Melvyn P. Leffler, Co-Chair of the History and Public Policy Program’s Advisory Board about his new book, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq, which has received praise from readers across the political spectrum.

Upcoming Events

Water @ Wilson | Water and Conflict: Updates from the Russia-Ukraine War

Tuesday, Feb. 7 // 9:30–11:00 am (ET)

Deterring Russia at Sea in the High North

Thursday, Feb. 9 // 1:30–4:30 pm (ET)

Fostering National Security and Economic Prosperity in North America

Friday, Feb. 10 // 9:15–10:15 am (ET)

Wilson In the News

The Mayor of a Ukrainian City is in Washington Looking for Help to Rebuild (NPR)

"It is one of the ironies of this war that the very brutality that Putin tried to use to scare people, to beat them into submission, actually had the reverse impact of awakening the world, of bringing the world together.” - Amb. Mark Green

Russia Can’t Replace Western Chips—So It Gets Them Illegally (The Hill)

“Even before the start of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of tough technological sanctions, Russian chips relied heavily on Western architecture, imported components and foreign manufacturers, and at the same time, they still lagged behind the world leaders by about 15 or 20 years.” -Alena Popova

US Boosts Military Presence in Philippines to Try to Deter China

“We are facing a possible assault on Taiwan that we don’t know if and when it will happen. We have the tyranny of distance. Part of what having bases in the Philippines allows, is having prepositioned supplies, having bases where you can go and refuel and build facilities.” -Mark Kennedy

Why the United States Is Courting Nepal (Foreign Policy)

"The United States has long viewed closer partnership with Nepal as part of its Indo-Pacific strategy intended to counterbalance China... Still, managing geopolitical competition won’t be easy.” -Michael Kugelman explains why in this week’s South Asia Brief.

North Korea's Cyber-Warriors (Real Clear Politics)

“Kim Jong Un knows that in order to convince his people that he is taking them into a modern era... That has to include science and technology... But with that comes the threat of information, and information from the outside world that challenges the story that he and his family have been telling North Koreans.” -Jean Lee

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